The XML features of temp-tables and ProDataSets allow you to take advantage of their rich relational features while providing a standards-based method for sharing data and schema with application partners. These XML features include the following:
Load XML Schema to create an empty temp-table or ProDataSet.
Read XML data, XML Schema, or both to populate an empty temp-table or ProDataSet.
Read XML data, XML Schema, or both into temp-tables and ProdataSets that already contain data and schema.
Write XML data, XML Schema, or both from a temp-table or ProDataSet to XML documents.
Perform round-trip XML write/reads. A round trip is an XML write of data during one session followed by an XML read in another session. For example, suppose your application needs to write data as XML to the file system when the user does not have a network connection. When the connection is established, your application can check for XML data files and read them back in.
The XML features are available as attributes and methods on:
Temp-table objects
Temp-table buffer objects (acts on the entire temp-table, not just the current buffer contents))
Load XML Schema to create an empty temp-table or ProDataSet.